By: Nic Wirtz March 7, 2023 Central America forms new, integrated markets to fuel the region’s bounce-back. Central American institutions entered 2023 determined to learn from the difficult pandemic period—taking…
Category: CENTRAL AMERICA NEWS AND POLITICS
Peace Leaders in Putumayo, Colombia Bet Their Lives on Coca Crop Substitution
By: Alicia Florez, Insight Crime March 2023 Community leaders in Colombia’s Putumayo department have historically supported coca substitution programs as part of peace processes aimed at resolving the country’s long-running…
Central America in all time low on Corruption index!
By: Staff Writer February 24, 2023 Central American countries are at an all-time low on the Corruption index as violence fuelled by drug trafficking choke them out day by day.…
Venezuela’s Organized Crime Top 10 for 2023
By: Insight Crime February 21, 2023 Venezuela’s organized crime groups and networks have evolved rapidly over the last decade, exploiting social and political crises that have wracked the country while…
Is Nayib Bukele’s ‘Iron Fist’ in El Salvador Working?
By: InsightCrime February 14, 2023 After the influential and well-sourced publication El Faro declared that El Salvador’s controversial President Nayib Bukele had “disarticulate(d)” the country’s gangs, is it time to…
Statement of the OAS General Secretariat on the Arrival of 222 Nicaraguan Political Prisoners in the United States
February 10, 2023 The General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) today welcomes the arrival in the United States as refugees of 222 former Nicaraguan political prisoners. Their…
Upcoming Guatemala elections are already controversial
By: Staff Writer February 3, 2023 The Guatemalan elections will be held on June 25, 2023 to elect the president and vice president, all 160 seats of the Congress, all…
OAS Deploys Electoral Cooperation Technical Team to Guatemala
February 3, 2023 Responding to a request from the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) of Guatemala, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS), through the Department for Electoral…
Otoniel Pleads Guilty: Farewell to Colombia’s Last Kingpin
By: Insight Crime January 31, 2023 Otoniel, the fallen head of the Urabeños crime syndicate, has pleaded guilty to a raft of crimes in New York. His trial marks the…
The Inescapable Prison of Barrio 18 in Honduras
BY JUAN JOSÉ MARTÍNEZ D´AUBUISSON for InsightCrime January 20, 2023 Entering Barrio 18, the powerful Central American street gang, can seem like a violent rebirth. Members get a new family,…
Honduras suspended its constitution to fight gangs, will it work?
By: Staff Writer January 10, 2023 The government of Honduras announced in December that it suspended some constitutional rights in areas of two main cities controlled by criminal groups. The…
Honduras to Host Important Event on Public Integrity in Latin America and Caribbean
November 22, 2022 On December 1 and 2, 2022, Tegucigalpa will host a major event on public integrity in Latin America and the Caribbean, organized by the Inter-American Development Bank…